Changes

[00:14.85] Come on, come on

[00:15.85] I see no changes, wake up in the morning and I ask myself

[00:18.84] Is life worth living, should I blast myself?

[00:21.05] I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black

[00:23.05] My stomach hurts, so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch

[00:25.33] Cops give a damn about a negro

[00:27.31] Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he's a hero

[00:29.56] Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares

[00:31.58] One less hungry mouth on the welfare

[00:33.87] First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal the brothers

[00:36.08] Give 'em guns, step back, watch 'em kill each other

[00:38.30] It's time to fight back that's what Huey said

[00:40.31] Two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead

[00:42.57] I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere

[00:43.80] Unless we share with each other

[00:46.77] We gotta start makin' changes

[00:48.31] Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers

[00:51.08] And that's how it's supposed to be

[00:52.81] How can the devil take a brother, if he's close to me?

[00:55.55] I'd love to go back to when we played as kids

[00:57.55] But things changed, that's the way it is

[01:00.56] Come on, come on, that's just the way it is

[01:06.32] Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is

[01:13.81] Aww, yeah

[01:17.10] Come on, come on, that's just the way it is

[01:23.56] Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is

[01:31.31] Aww, yeah

[01:33.32] I see no changes, all I see is racist faces

[01:36.07] Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races

[01:38.05] We under, I wonder what it takes to make this

[01:40.57] One better place, let's erase the wasted

[01:43.05] Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right

[01:45.05] 'Cause mo' black and white is smokin' crack tonight

[01:47.30] And only time we chill is when we kill each other

[01:49.31] It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other

[01:51.81] And although it seems heaven sent

[01:53.06] We ain't ready, to see a black President

[01:55.83] It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact

[01:57.34] The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks

[02:00.31] But some things will never change

[02:01.84] Try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game

[02:04.59] Now tell me, what's a mother to do?

[02:06.07] Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you

[02:09.07] You gotta operate the easy way

[02:10.30] I made a G today, but you made it in a sleazy way

[02:13.06] Sellin' crack to the kid, I gotta get paid

[02:15.34] Well hey, well, that's the way it is

[02:24.32] Come on, come on, that's just the way it is

[02:25.31] Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is

[02:31.61] Aww, yeah

[02:35.31] Come on, come on, that's just the way it is

[02:41.34] Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is

[02:48.80] Aww, yeah

[02:51.08] We gotta make a change

[02:54.30] It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes

[02:57.32] Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live

[03:00.55] And let's change the way we treat each other

[03:02.83] You see, the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do

[03:05.06] What we gotta do, to survivem

[03:08.31] And still I see no changes, can't a brother get a little peace?

[03:11.08] There's war in the streets and war in the Middle East

[03:13.58] Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs

[03:16.31] So the police can bother me

[03:18.06] And I ain't never did a crime, I ain't have to do

[03:20.05] But now, I'm back with the facts givin' 'em back to you

[03:22.52] Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up

[03:23.83] Crack you up and pimps smack you up

[03:26.55] You gotta learn to hold ya own

[03:28.05] They get jealous when they see ya, with ya mobile phone

[03:30.81] But tell the cops, they can't touch this

[03:32.34] I don't trust this, when they try to rush I bust this

[03:35.30] That's the sound of my tool, you say it ain't cool?

[03:37.56] My mama didn't raise no fool

[03:39.55] And as long as I stay black, I gotta stay strapped

[03:42.34] And I never get to lay back

[03:44.05] 'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs

[03:46.07] Some buck that I roughed up way back

[03:48.33] Comin' back after all these years

[03:50.05] Rat-a-tat, tat, tat, tat, that's the way it is

[03:54.84] That's just the way it is

[03:59.04] Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is

[04:03.58] Aww, yeah

[04:11.80] That's just the way it is

[04:16.30] Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is

[04:23.80] Aww, yeah

[04:25.06] Some things will never change